Poet Affinities
Every poet has a thematic centre of gravity averaged from their critiqued poems. Here we use that to find the poets whose work rhymes with a given writer — often in surprising ways.
Poets whose work rhymes most with Yosa Buson
Matsuo Bashō
1644–28 November 1694 (~50)
86% affinity
Shared: tokugawa shogunate, haikai
bio 86%
Yone Noguchi
8 December 1875–13 July 1947 (~72)
70% affinity
bio 70%
Meng Haoran
c. 690–740 (~50)
69% affinity
Shared: travel, social
bio 69%
Wang Wei
699–761 (~62)
69% affinity
Shared: painting
bio 69%
Li Shangyin
c. 812–c. 858 (~46)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Li Bai
701–762 (~61)
68% affinity
bio 68%
Du Fu
712–770 (~58)
67% affinity
bio 67%
Sadakichi Hartmann
8 November 1867–22 November 1944 (~77)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Alfred Noyes
16 September 1880–25 June 1958 (~78)
66% affinity
bio 66%
Witter Bynner
10 August 1881–1 June 1968 (~87)
66% affinity
Shared: social
bio 66%
Trumbull Stickney
20 June 1874–11 October 1904 (~30)
66% affinity
bio 66%
John Keats
31 October 1795–23 February 1821 (~26)
65% affinity
bio 65%